Advice about my 1st barbarian faction please

[Conan]

Hi all,

Going to try at being my 1st barbarian faction and will probably go for Lusotannan. So what can I expect from a barbarian faction since I've always played s a "Civilized" faction.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

It varies for every faction.

I have played as them before, and beat the crap out of Carthage with them. It was pretty fun, but there was a lot of sitting around to build up the economy and get rich enough to make a good army.

For Lusotannan your troops will be better in an ambush than they would in a pitched fight, especially against the Romans and Carthaginians, but your better troops can easily match the infantrymen of other nations.
Also, many of your troops might not all be strictly Lusotannan, many could be Iberians, and thus technically "civilized". The Iberian troops are especially useful because they provide desperatly needed cavalry support, but it's up to you to decide if you want to use them or not.
Also, they have no long range missile troops that I know of, so you'll need mercenaries there.

[gamegeek2]

the Trokalobutiamm are slingers, which are always good, though not as good as they used to be

[Zradha Pahlavan]

the Trokalobutiamm are slingers, which are always good, though not as good as they used to be

Huh. I've never been able to recruit them.
Is there a reform I missed or are they in a later EB version?

[NeoSpartan]

If your starting with Lusotana (sp):
---BUM RUSH carthege!!!!
If you don't they won't attack you BUT, they will build like 2 full stacks. And I don't know about u but I don't like to have powerful armies next to my borders.
---next just chill, disband your super expensive cavarly, and wait till you get some $$.

If you start with Aedui
---BUM RUSH the Arverni!!!
If you don't 260+BC will arrive and you will be fighting both the Romani, and Arverni... not good
---Next make some $$, expand, and keep an eye on the Romans. They will come for you

Same story with the Arverni.

If you start with the Sweboz.
---expand chill... make some $, once ur decently strong for for Gaul, Rome, Dacia, etc...
---beware of the open steppes......

as for the eastern factions.... don't ask me

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

"beware of the open steppes"?

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

First rule of the book is that no faction is equal to the rest, second is that if you take some minor faction you will be by rule underdeveloped and poor. So, you need to sit down, expand slowly and gradually and develop your economy instead of trying to rush for your goals; your finances will prevent you this.

[Megalos Danielos Psychopatos]

Most barbarian factions if not conquering and plundering are poor due to their low tech lvl; only Casse are able to be rich...and Lusotannan I think. If talking about troops...in most, Your units will be vulnerable to missiles, and U will have to make use of their biggest advantage: pure brute strength ; no finesse! U will probably get big casualties during battles, but U will also have power to break even through phalanx (gaesatae, swordmasters, thraikoi rhompharaphoroi...).


Sooorry for my english...again.